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July 29, 2026

Market attention partly turned to events happening closer to home than the Middle East conflict this week, as a tropical...

July 28, 2026

United States President Donald Trump ordered a cessation over the weekend to the bombing program going on against Iran t...

July 27, 2026

The Strait of Hormuz remained effectively closed despite a pause in hostilities between the United States and Iran. Furt...

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Monthly Base Oil Reports

July Base Oil Report

July 1, 2026

No end in sight to the chaos in the Gulf....

June Base Oil Report

May 23, 2026

The current upheaval of base oil markets is severe enough to seem mythical except that lubricant producers are feeling ...

May Base Oil Report

May 4, 2026

Base oil supply has tightened and prices skyrocketed since the start of the latest war in the Middle East....

April Base Oil Report

April 6, 2026

Like global energy markets, base oil and lubricant markets were roiled by the start of United States’ and Israel’s w...

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Join Base Oils Editor Gabriela Wheeler and Executive Editor Tim Sullivan as they discuss this month’s Base Oil Report. The current upheaval of base...

Crude oil and feedstock prices surged to multi-month highs after the United States and Israel launched a coordinated attack over the March 1 weekend a...

Join Base Oils Editor Gabriela Wheeler and Executive Editor Tim Sullivan as they discuss the Base Oil Report. The nightmarish weather forecast that ra...

Gabriela Wheeler discusses some signs that demand for U.S. base oils could improve in coming months, although prices may continue to face downward pre...

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